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My opinion is make the parents home school the violent and disruptive kids. Their individual right for an education doesnt trump the right for the other 25 kids to get an education or for the teacher to work in a safe environment. We waste so much time, energy and money on the 1% who we all...

My son is 14 and plays a lot of online games but also does his homework (advanced classes so he gets a lot of homework - my partner's kid same age but different school gets zero homework ever - because the teachers are as lazy as most of the parents) and reads. My son knows that if his grades...

Probably not good having 10 year olds in Grade 1 either... Its a parenting issue far more than a school issue, beyond teachers needing to spot it and report it.

I work long hours and am on my phone all the time but Ive always made time to read to my kids. Sadly my daughter lost the love for it and it really affected her (not all her fault) but my son loves to read and will devour books.

Reading to them for 15 minutes every night when they go to bed. Until they are old enough to read by themselves for 15 minutes. Problem is when the parents also struggle to read - though I dare say the number of adults who couldnt read a book aimed at 4 year olds would be very small. Bigger...

At an early age absolutely. It cant be the schools at fault if the kids have never touched a book when they first start school. The problems which are the fault of schools is failing to detect this early and work out how to handle it, and the bigger problem, having 3,000 different requirements...

Yep. Reading from an early age helps literally everything. But so many kids start school not knowing how to read and it just gets worse from there.

There was a time when parents would read to their children and encourage them to read independently. Now we expect schools to do everything. And in doing so they sacrifice the actually important subjects.

In NSW they are (or were when I was told about it) able to claim nearly everything they spend and the Govt pays the fringe benefits tax on it. So their actual wage here is 30% to 40% higher than what they get paid.